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Calyptorhynchus solaxdki, Temminck. 8olancIer's Black 

 Cockatoo. 



Gould, Handhk. Bds. Austr., Vol. ii., sp. 400, p. 18. 



This, the smallest species of Black Cockatoo, has a most exten- 

 sive range of habitat, being found alike in the dense scrubs of the 

 coastal ranges of tropical and eastern Australia, as well as the 

 open forest lands on the eastern margins of the plains of New 

 South Wales. For an opportunity of examining an eg^ of this 

 species I am indebted to Mr. E. H. Lane, who has taken several 

 nests of this species near Dubbo, about two hundi'ed and fifty 

 miles North-west of Sydney, and has also sent a skin of the biid 

 for identification. The eggs were laid on the dry pulverized 

 wood in the hollow main trunks of the Eucalypts, at a height 

 varying from twenty to forty feet from the ground. Several of 

 the nests were about three feet down the trunk, and apertures 

 liad to be made in the trees with an axe, so as to secure the eggs, 

 In no instance were the nests found in the limbs or spouts, but 

 always in the main trunk of the tree. Mr. Lane lias obtained in 

 all six nests, four of which contained a single egg in each, the 

 other two single young birds. Five nests were found during the 

 months of March and April, and one in May ; they were all 

 obtained on the Springs and Wambangalang Stations, about 

 twenty-six miles South-west of Dubbo. 



The egg is an ellipse in form, slightly swollen at one end, pure 

 white, the texture of the shell fine but lustreless ; upon look- 

 ing closely into the shell very minute pittings may be observed. 

 Length 1-82 x 1-.37 inch. Taken on the Springs Station at the 

 latter end of April, 1880. 



Ilab. Eastern and South-eastern Australia. 



EuPHEMA PKTKOPiiiLA, Gould. Rock-Parrakeet. 



Gould, Uaiidbk., Bds. Austr., Vol. ii., sp. -135, p. 76. 



. This species is plentifully dispersed over the coast line of South 

 and South-western Australia, and the contiguous islands. Gilbert 

 found it breeding "in the holes of the most precipitous clifi's," on 

 Rottnest and other islands near Swan River in Western Australia. 

 Mr. A. H. C. Zietz, the Assistant Director of the Adelaide 

 ^Museum, was also successful in procuring specimens of these 

 birds as well as the eggs in September 1890, on Spilsby Island, 

 one of the Sir Joseph Bank's Group in Spencer's Gulf, South 

 Australia, where he found this species breeding in holes in 

 the flat, sandy, soil. Mr. Zietz also informs me that he has 

 observed these birds on the tops of the rocks near the shore at 

 Aldinga Bay, and that at the present time live specimens are 

 exhibited for sale in the bird dealer's shops at Adelaide. The 

 Trustees of the Australian Museum ha\ e recentlv received from 



